The pages looks like they come from Facebook. The teaser is a video that should be watched "only if you are 16 or older". The play button hides a Facebook Like widget.
Spam page looking like Facebook |
Before the user can play the video, he must either verify that he is at least 18, or that he is a human ... by filling out surveys, trying games, etc.! The spammers are paid for each action taken by the user (PTC campaign).
"Security check": the user must fill out a survey |
If you stay on these pages long enough, they will attempt to send a form on your behalf. Fortunately, Firefox throws a warning.
Firefox prevent the automatic POST |
acidattacker.com shows a Facebook page and a Youtube page with the same content.
Fake Youtube page from spammers |
These spam pages can be found at:
- hxxp://bnltwo.info/video2/
- hxxp://acidattacker.com/
-- Julien